HMM: Prediction: Heart Disease Will Surge Over The Coming Decades.

FLORIDA MAN EXPLAINED: Study finds exposure to sun, heat and humidity can exacerbate symptoms of mental disorders.

It’s not his fault, he’s just crazy from the heat.

WELL THAT’S NOT GOOD: Smoking makes heart ‘thicker, weaker, heavier’ over time, study warns.

SO, WHAT IF THE RESURRECTION NEVER HAPPENED? It’s THE crucial question, the one that determines if Christians are, in Paul the Apostle’s description, fools or something else entirely. Here’s my take on four of the most popular alternative explanations.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Stocks accelerate losses into the close as Dow plunges 1,000 points on Powell’s warning. Bidenflation gets harder to ignore.

LEFTISTS HATE THAT: ProPublica Horrified That a Lawful Business is Defending Itself in the Courts.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: U.S. ‘Drastically Changed,’ Says Texas Chaplain Fired for Criticizing Males in Women’s Sports.

READER FAVORITE: Rand McNally 2023 Large Scale Road Atlas. #CommissionEarned

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Caught In a Prostitution Sting on His Honeymoon. “On this week’s Florida Man Friday, we have the worst ‘I love you’ on record, how not to stash your meth, and the return of the Swamp Thing.”

VIP only, so don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

ROGER SIMON: Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Among the Greatest Partisan Rip-Offs of All Time.

Remember 1773’s Boston Tea Party and “taxation without representation” that led to the American Revolution and our ultimate separation from Britain?

I imagine you do, but perhaps not if you are one of our younger readers and all you were being taught in one of our woke schools that skin color and gender identity were far more important than reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Nevertheless, Joe Biden—quite possibly, even likely, illegally and certainly as the most obvious kind of vote grubbing—has gone one (or multiple times) up on King George in the “taxation without representation” department with his student loan forgiveness, partial though it may be.

Consider this: The gullible poor slob (aka good citizen), whether parent or graduate, who has been paying or has fully paid his/her student loan is being asked to pay for someone else’s, once again through taxes, even though the recipient of this largesse may be less needy than the benighted taxpayer.

He or she is paying twice, rather like the estate tax but worse because it taking the money of yet more people that can ill afford it.

How much will this loan forgiveness cost all of us taxpayers? Estimates vary, of course. The other day Penn Wharton put it at $300 billion after 10 years. That translates to $2,000 per taxpayer, according to the National Review.

But those are not the most recent figures. Fox Business on Aug. 25 is estimating between $440 and $600 billion over the same time frame. Something called the Committee for a Responsible Budget has now put it at $500 billion.

In most of our experiences, these estimates tend to go up, often also in multiples, so no one knows what it will actually cost, but we can be sure it’s a stupendous amount.

Driving home from my early morning stint on the Tennessee Star Report today, I heard Glenn Beck—who immediately follows on the same station to his national audience—mention ever more disturbing numbers, comparing the expenditure to the annual cost of the U.S. Military and to the gross national product of over a hundred countries.

No wonder: Democrats in tough races distance themselves from Biden’s student loans decision.

LIVE AT 3PM EASTERN: Five O’Clock Somewhere with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest Paula Bolyard.

THEY CALL IT THE “SENATE LAUNCH SYSTEM” FOR A REASON — THERE’S A LOTS OF PORK AT STAKE: Former NASA official on trying to stop SLS: “There was just such visible hostility.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE:

● Shot: Biden Laments the Demise of ‘Real Republicans’: ‘I Respect Conservative Republicans, I Don’t Respect These MAGA Republicans.’

—Mediaite, today.

● Chaser: Biden: Romney’s approach to financial regulation will ‘put y’all back in chains.’

—The Washington Post, August 14th, 2012.

● Hangover: Sources: Biden likened tea partiers to ‘terrorists.’

—Politico, August 1st, 2011.

NEW EVIDENCE OF OBAMACARE’S FAILURE: Remember all those promises about “you can keep your doctor” and “improving health care for all Americans” as then-President Barack Obama peddled Obamacare to the American people.

A decade has passed since Obamacare was deemed approved in Congress and then signed into law by Obama right after Joe Biden described it as a “Big F—— Deal.” The data is in and guess what – life expectancy in America has plunged since Obamacare became law, according to Issues & Insights.

HMM: Universal flu vaccine protects against variants of both influenza A and B viruses.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (EURO EDITION): Forget showering, it’s eat or heat for shocked Europeans hit by energy crisis.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Thanks to Woke, World’s 2nd Largest Theater Chain Talks Bankruptcy.

Cineworld is the planet’s second-largest theater chain. Here in the U.S., it’s known as Regal Theaters. And now, due to several factors — one being the woke pandemic — talk of “bankruptcy” is in the air.

Yes, one of those factors is the anti-science China Flu lockdowns. There’s also global and U.S. recession. Add to that the last few months of 2022, which looks pretty barren as far as blockbusters go—which leads me to Hollywood’s woke problem.

First, some background:

To be sure, moviegoers have streamed back into theaters this year to see blockbusters like “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” and ”Jurassic World: Dominion.” …

But this summer’s $3.3 billion in ticket sales is still running nearly 20% behind the summer of 2019, before the pandemic, as of Sunday, according to data firm Comscore. And there don’t seem to be any big hits on the immediate horizon to make those numbers much better.

Cineworld said its admissions levels have recently been below expectations. And with a “limited film slate,” it expects the lower levels to continue until November. That would mean an additional crunch to its finances.

So, we have two issues to explore here. The first is a post-pandemic 2022 box office running 20 percent behind the pre-pandemic box office. The second is a lack of blockbusters between now and November.

Well, why?

Why is that?

Why is 2022 running 20 percent behind 2019?

No wonder “David Zaslav, the CEO of the merged Warner Discovery, is swinging his Mighty Ax.”

GOOD: SpaceX, T-Mobile set to announce plans to ‘increase connectivity.’

COLUMBIA LAWPROF PHIL HAMBURGER: Can Magistrate Judges Constitutionally Issue Search Warrants Against Trump (Or Anyone Else)? “The problem is that Reinhart is a so-called magistrate judge. Many commentators have focused on his personal history and political leanings, but much more significant is that he is not really a judge. To be precise, he is not a judge of a court of the United States. The judicial power of the United States is vested in its courts. In the exercise of this power, judges of those courts can issue search warrants. But a magistrate judge is just an assistant to a court and its judges. Not being a judge of one of the courts of the United States, he cannot constitutionally exercise the judicial power of the United States. That means he cannot issue a search warrant.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: President Joe Biden says ‘it’s like semi-fascism’ that underpins the whole MAGA movement.

Related:

● Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.

● Zuckerberg Alleges FBI Warned Facebook of ‘Russian Propaganda’ Before Hunter Laptop Story Broke.

● The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

BREAKING: DOJ Website Crashes as FBI Releases Docs on Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home.

HMM: Stopping statins ‘early’ may slash protection against heart disease, study says.

40% OF 12-17 YEAR-OLD DC BLACKS ARE UNVACCINATED: DC Mayor Says No Virtual Learning, Giving Unvaccinated Black Teens Zero Alternative Options. “During a press conference, Bowser, a Democrat, admitted there are no alternative options, including virtual learning, for students who cannot attend school due to the District’s vaccine mandate, meaning unvaccinated children will effectively be left without an education.”

WOULD IT NOT BE SIMPLER IF THE GOVERNMENT SIMPLY DISSOLVED THE PEOPLE AND ELECTED ANOTHER? Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting. “‘Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?’ she said. ‘You are not New Yorkers.’”

JOE RAN ON IT, DEMS OWN IT: Vulnerable Democrats Already Running Away From Student Debt Fiasco.